Rusty Wallace

Rusty Wallace (American, b. 1973), a native of Kentucky, studied art at Georgetown College and The University of Kentucky, focusing on sculpture, drawing, and ceramics. He completed his MFA in Studio Art at The University of Georgia in 2000.
Selected exhibitions include "Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Awards," presented by International Sculpture Center at Grounds for Sculpture, NJ, in 2000, "Small Sculpture 2001," at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, "Atlanta Biennial 2003," Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, "Ways of Seeing," Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, 2008, and "AND NOT, work by Rusty Wallace," at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, 2008. Most recently, Wallace has exhibited work in "Energy Plan for the Hopeful Man, New Work by Rusty Wallace" at Twin Kittens in Atlanta, GA in 2010 and was included in "Movers & Shakers: MOCA GA Salutes the Rising Stars of the Georgia Arts Scene" at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA in 2011.
Parallel to his own art research, throughout the last decade, Wallace has been a dedicated, conscientious art educator, teaching collegiate art part-time at UGA and full-time at Young Harris College, and was a visiting artist and sculpture professor at Alfred University in 2009.
Wallace has lived and worked in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Athens, GA, and North Georgia since 1997. He currently resides in Athens, GA, where he is self-employed and continues to explore semiotics, ontology, art history, philosophy and spirituality in his work. Wallace uses drawing, photography, sculpture, painting and video in his art research.

Profile photo by Bob Butler, March 2010.